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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 4

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Tomorrow His Majesty King George VI. will celebrate his 43rd birthday. There will not be a public holiday in New Zealand, by arrangement, because of the proximity of the date to so many other public holidays,, the King’s Birthday was officially commemorated on June 6, and any festivities will be purely ' private ones. Yesterday a salute was fired from Point Jerningham battery (Wellington) to mark the second anniversary of the King’s accession, and a similar salute will’be fired tomorrow.

The Hon P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, has returned to Wellington from a visit to the West Coast.

The Mayor of Wanganui (Mr W. J. Rogers) was taken ill last evening and was admitted to hospital. He was operated upon today for appendicitis. Mr James H. Lynskey (formerly of Eketahuna) who has been headmaster of the Taumarunui District High School for the past 14 years and has been teaching for 47 years, will retire on superannuation at the end of the term. Mr W. O. Rennie has been reappointed for a term of three years to the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College. He is one of two members of the board appointed by the Governor-General.

The funeral of the late Mrs Helen Matilda Dew took place on Saturday afternoon, the Rev E. J. Rich conducting a service at the residence and also at the graveside. The pall-bearers were Messrs J. Dew and M. Gaskin (grandsons), J., C., and L. Harris (nephews), and R. Hatch. The interment of the late Mr Bernard Smith, of Flat Point, took place at the Masterton Cemetery on Sunday. The Rev Father Dillon conducted a service at St Patrick’s Church and also officiated at the cemetery. Fellowworkers of the late Mr Smith at Flat Point acted as pall-bearers. In 1896 Mr E. P. V. Sealy, manager of. the Wanganui branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, joined the staff of the bank in Timaru; in a few days he will retire after 42 years of service, broken only by the time served with the French army in the Great War. Mr Sealy Was a well-known Rugby footballer. He represented South Canterbury from 1900 to 1906. A party of Roman Catholic clergy arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Awatea from Australia, three being New Zealanders returning for Christmas holidays. They were the Rev Father McCarthy, vice-rector of St John’s College, Lismore, formerly known in New Zealand as a footballer; the Rev Father Crocker, head of the agricultural department of the college; the Rev Father Joyce, head of the Marist Missioners, Sydney, and the Rev V. Ryan, a Dominican father from Ireland at present stationed in Australia. Yesterday was the twenty-ninth anniversary of the ordination to the priesthood of the Very Rev Monsignor Connolly, Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Wellington, and the Rev Father L. Daly, parish priest at Lower Hutt. It was also the ninety-fourth birthday of Mrs E. McMenamin, Lower Hutt, mother of the late Father J. McMenamin, who was killed in the Great War. Father Daly was also a war chaplain and with Monsignor Connolly, was in the first group of students from Mosgiel Seminary to be ordained.